Moscow gambit

Action that puts you in risk of making everyone / majority hostile towards you.

- Putin invades ukraine and Russia has sanctions
- Nice Moscow gambit

by Youshisu March 15, 2022

Penny's Gambit

Claiming your team has a COVID outbreak in order to avoid playing against a strong opponent.

Penny Hardaway claimed his Memphis Tigers had COVID so they wouldn't have to face Rick Barnes and the Tennessee Volunteers. He used the old Penny's Gambit. It's a bold move, but at least avoids the loss and he can still claim that his team was superior even though they contracted COVID and Tennessee didn't.

by LastBoyScout January 4, 2022

Melnikov's Gambit

It's what happens when a person comes into conflict when purchasing a new (or pre-existing) LEGO set.

Thanks a lot, LEGO Group. I'm suffering Melnikov's Gambit trying to get ahold of the new modular set!

by Boo69Boo69 April 7, 2023

Charles Gambit

When you gambit your Queen for a pawn

Wow Thighnoon used Charles Gambit

by Thighnoon February 10, 2021

Gambit

A stupid person, who talks bollocks.

Person 1: I voted Donald Trump because he has a good grasp of Science, Art and considers the well-being of all Mankind!

Person 2: You, Sir, are a fucking gambit.

by Halibut2 April 18, 2019

Bill Clinton Gambit

A defense strategy where one seeks to extricate oneself from a bad situation by claiming to be innocent by (a usually absurd) technicality. Named for former US president Bill Clinton, who popularized this strategy in the 1990s with his creative explanations for how he didn't actually smoke weed because he didn't "inhale", and most infamously, how he didn't technically lie when he said there is no sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky because "it depends on what the definition of "is" is."

Person 1: I just read an article about how Senator Rob Johnson claimed he didn't technically commit a crime by being involved in a plot to replace legitimate Electoral College electors with fraudulent ones in the 2020 election, because he was only involved for "a couple seconds"...

Person 2: A Republican using the Bill Clinton Gambit? Oh the sweet irony.

by Alex-2598 August 23, 2022

The von Clausewitz Gambit

The von Clausewitz Gambit is an unusual opening move on a dating app, whereby the person making the opening move delivers a pick-up line derived from Carl von Clausewitz, usually as a reference to his masterpiece 'Vom Kriege' ('On War').

"Did you see that screenshot Kevin put in the groupchat? He used the von Clausewitz Gambit on a girl he matched with on Hinge!"

"Yeah man that's insane, I can't believe it worked!"

by Carl_von_Clausewitz January 15, 2024